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BASKETBALL
SET FOR CENTER JUMP
The Southwest Conference basketball tournament gets underway
in Dallas...at the fair park automobile building....with
Southern Methodist's short but scrappy club...battling the
giant Longhorns of Texas. Here the ponies try to match
aggression eight as they drive for that Texas basket.
And they score.
WFC
But here..six foo Ted Price notches a tip-in for
the Longhorns.
WFC
It's that terrible Texas tallness that keeps the Ponies
outside the nets too much of the time..watch Don Flein,
six foot six Texas giant..cause 5 foot 10 Charlie Galey of
the Mustangsjmiss one.
WFC
And again...later in the game...more of that Rugged Texas
defensive under the basket.. Ted Price...eight inches above
six feet...ceptures the bell after an unsuccessful lay-upeffort by the Ponies.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Basketball], script, December 27, 1951; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc705242/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.